Anirban Nandi

With more than 15 years of professional experience, Anirban specializes in Data Sciences, Business Analytics and Data Engineering spanning across various verticals of offline & online Retail and building analytics teams from grounds up. Following his master’s from JNU in Economics, Anirban started his career at Target and spent more than 8 years working on developing in-house products like Customer Personalization, Recommendation System and Search Engine Classifiers. Post Target,
Anirban became one of the founding members at Data Labs (Landmark Group) and spent more than 4.5 years building the onshore and offshore team of ~100 members working on Assortment, Inventory, Pricing, Marketing, Ecommerce and Customer analytics solutions. Currently, Anirban is associated with Rakuten as the Head of AI Products and Business Analytics leading a team of ~125
members, developing analytics solutions for the Rakuten global ecosystem and building a high-preforming team in the Bangalore, India office. Outside of his day engagements in the field of AI, Anirban is also a DEIB enthusiasts leading the Rakuten India DEIB initiatives working with a fantastic team spread across the entire organization. 

On the personal side, Anirban loves sports, and is a big follower of soccer/football (Argentina and
Manchester United are his favourite teams)